Slashdot Stories for 2018

Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment 256
FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues 398
Google is Working on a Fix For Laggy Tablet Mode on Chrome OS Devices 41
China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet 86
Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower 162
Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers 56
Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake 88
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 65
Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. 296
Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares 346
Under Current Policies, Residential Batteries Increase Emissions In Most Cases 182
Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry 302
Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81 46
Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent 146
World's Rarest Bird, Madagascar Pochard, Gets New Home 29
Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans 143
NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party 87
As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic 698
Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability 92
A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore 88
As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet 257
Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing 57
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Prosecutors Request Prison Time For Executives 138
Artist Proposes Small Robots with 3D-Printed Faces of Dead Relatives 55
Microsoft Says Edge is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox 90
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? 497
How Facebook Keeps Messenger From Crashing On New Year's Eve 69
'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' 374
Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? 157
YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video 107
Chinese Schools Are Using 'Smart Uniforms' To Track Their Students' Locations 95
Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely 187
EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects 78
How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site 62
FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry 294
Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software 108
Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV 54
Google Helps AI Learn To Book Flights on the Web 38
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
Everything We Knew About Fuchsia's UI, Armadillo, Is Gone 86
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise 184
Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive 271
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage 143
Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government 203
Apache NetBeans 10.0 Now Available 38
'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' 510
Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds 145
Google Will Launch the Pixel 3 and 3 XL 'Lite' on Verizon in Spring 2019, Report Says 30
Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 102
New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion 148
'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' 140
There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map 100
Users Report of Nationwide CenturyLink Internet Outage 87
In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment 272
Epic Games, the Creator of Fortnite, Banked a $3 Billion Profit in 2018: Report 132
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis 271
Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching 46
Users Report Losing Bitcoin in Clever Hack of Electrum Wallets 72
Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET 142
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? 185
No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government 93
Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US 382
Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover 88
India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart To Sell Products Online 135
A Man Spent $5,000 of His Own Money To Put Zimbabwe on Street View 73
Colin O'Brady Completes Historic Antarctic Crossing 85
'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' 566
Tech is Killing Street Food 141
AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells 27
NYPL's Chief Digital Officer Says Public is Better off When Libraries Are 'Risk Averse' About Tech 78
Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality 303
Whale Shark Tourism Harms Coral Reefs 62
Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District 82
Android TV Now Claiming Over 100 Pay TV Operator Partners Worldwide 34
Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm 56
Japan Announces Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission, To Resume Commercial Whaling 274
A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds 483
How Google Software Won 2018 75
Some Chinese Companies Are Giving Employees Incentives For Buying Huawei Devices or Just Giving Them One and Boycotting Apple 120
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network 79
Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection 69
A Christmas Menu Dreamed Up by a Robot 42
iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data 154
UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones 129
Wall Street Banks Are Reportedly Backing Away From Cryptocurrency 49
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' 267
US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown 370
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun 371
Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie 87
Why One Tiny Island is Still a Domain Name Giant 52
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever 92
Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules 95
The Top Free Online University Courses of 2018, Ranked by Popularity 33
Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data To the Public; Requires Federal Agencies To Publish 'Non-Sensitive' Info in 'Machine-Readable' Format 89
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' 196
Tokyo Wants People To Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator 161
Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas 47
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? 255
'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' 473
Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record 26
SpaceX Launches Air Force's Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever Built 48
Ride Sharing Service Grab is Messing up the World's Largest Mapping Community's Data in Southeast Asia 47
Starting in 2019, Oslo Will Restrict the Use of Vehicles in its City Center 159
The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 232
The GPS Wars Have Begun 210
NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear 126
Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch 185
Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked 91
Intel Vows Better Communication With Partners About CPU Shortage 34
Google Hit With FTC Complaint Over 'Inappropriate' Kids Apps 23
Faraday Future Had the Worst Year Possible For an EV Startup 52
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry 87
'Something Weird Is Going On' as New Horizons Approaches Distant Asteroid 83
Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? 191
Videogame PUBG Bans 30,000 Cheaters, Discovers Professional Players Cheated 118
Alexa Gets Hooked Up To a Singing Fish Toy, and Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel 18
Reddit-Quoting Alexa Tells a User: 'Kill Your Foster Parents' 70
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found 65
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? 238
Rare Amiga Bought on eBay For $2,500 56
Self-Driving Car Company Zoox Is Now Allowed to Carry Passengers 33
A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames 57
Price Of Bitcoin Rises 27%, While Price of Bitcoin Cash Triples 83
Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features 77
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 60
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
Logitech Will Restore Third-Party Harmony Home Automation 42
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
Scientists Find a Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression 43
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week 110
Sneaky Mac Malware Went Undetected By AV Providers For Four Month 28
Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens 29
JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault 62
YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked 187
AT&T Will Put a Fake 5G Logo On Its 4G LTE Phones 81
Mars Express Beams Back Images of Ice-Filled Korolev Crater 104
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test 129
Can You Really Sue Fortnite For 'Stealing' Your Dance Moves? 141
Google Has a New Review Process For Handling Controversial Projects After Backlash Over Censored Search Product For China 43
How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist? 164
Lubuntu, a Popular Ubuntu Flavor, To Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases 111
Fortnite Teen Hackers 'Earning Thousands of Dollars a Week' 42
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says 44
Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia 91
India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers 108
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Apple Confirms Some iPad Pros Ship Slightly Bent, But Says It's Normal 181
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials 167
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase 132
Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash 32
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem 156
This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began 207
Python Gets New Governance Model 64
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
Forget Dot Com, 2019 Will Finally be the Year of Weird Domain Names 93
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name 521
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Inside the Unrelenting Scams of the Amazon Marketplace 76
AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' 73
Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core 121
Amazon Error Allowed Alexa User To Eavesdrop on Another Home 91
Over 110,000 Passengers on 760 Flights Disrupted by Drones Flying Over One of the UK's Busiest Airports 196
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
All Copyrighted Works First Published In the US In 1923 Will Enter Public Domain On January 1st 276
Google Lens Can Now Recognize a Billion Items 40
Researchers Genetically Modify Common Houseplant To Remove Air of Hazardous Compounds 69
Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working 199
Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel 186
Apple Tweaks iOS Animation In China In Attempt To Avoid Sales Ban 47
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US 75
Some 2017 iPad Pro Displays Suffering From Bright Spot Above Home Button 55
Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems 151
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies To Try a Four-Day Work Week 147
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure 594
Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge 135
Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free 68
DC Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Alleged Privacy Violations From Cambridge Analytica Scandal 70
India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 48
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
UK Chip-Maker Arm is Working on an AI-Powered Smart Chip That Can Tell if You Smell 107
Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome 152
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled 162
Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says 228
Facebook Gave More Than 150 Companies, Including Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Yahoo, Unprecedented Access To Users' Personal Data: NYT 114
Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots 76
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' 61
Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed 35
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast 114
Kroger Begins Autonomous Grocery Deliveries 20
Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand 104
Remove.bg is a Website That Removes Backgrounds from Portraits in Seconds 107
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
Google Opens Document Editing To Users Without a Google Account 25
UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week 91
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
Sphero Discontinues Its BB-8, R2-D2, and Other Licensed Disney Products 65
Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims 468
Taiwan To Shut Down 3G Networks By Year End 38
Spam Calls Jumped Over 300% Globally in 2018 80
Hyped AR Tech Firm Blippar Collapses Into Administration 65
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' 331
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today 209
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
Junk Food Cravings Linked To a Lack of Sleep, Study Suggests 42
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise 124
Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number 157
Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser 427
Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia 72
MIPS Goes Open Source 70
Cement is the Source of About 8% of the World's Carbon Dioxide Emissions 185
CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad 198
Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report 82
Norway is Entering a New Era of Climate-Conscious Architecture 119
California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 142
More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year 325
Amazon Wants To Curb Selling 'CRaP' Items it Can't Profit On, Like Bottled Water and Snacks: Report 222
Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders 340
Google To Invest $1 Billion in New Campus in New York City 35

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